About us

Fisher Meredith is a leading London regional law firm of over 30 years standing during which we have forged a robust reputation for protecting of the rights of individuals through legal action, offering personal legal services and services to small and medium sized businesses, organisations and institutions.

We have a hundred and ten staff of which eighty-five are lawyers engaged in a range of specialisms including family law, criminal law, children law, housing, mental health, community care, employment, education, immigration, access to health issues, professional negligence, civil actions against the police, prison law and particularly the human rights and public law issues associated with these areas of the law, as well as property and private client work together with company and commercial law particularly for businesses in the creative sector.

We adhere to high standards and have a strong sense of our own distinct culture and values which embraces ethical and responsible corporate governance

We are named in "Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession", the "Legal 500" and "Legal Experts" as one of London's leading firms in criminal Law, family Law, civil liberties, education law, immigration law, housing law and human rights.

Eileen Pembridge, the Senior Partner, was until recently, the Law Society Council Member for South London. She is a nationally renown family lawyer and is familiar to many through her regular appearances on BBC Radio 4's popular legal quiz game, “Points of Law”.

Stephen Hewitt, the Managing Partner, heads up the strategic and operational management of the firm and has for years been cited as one of the leading criminal lawyers in London.

We hold Legal Service Commission contracts in nine areas of law and are holders of the Law Society Practice Management Standard (Lexcel) and the Investors in People kitemark.

We have received many industry awards over the years including runners up in the national Law Society Gazette Centenary awards for “Excellence in Practice Standards” and for two years running in 2005 and 2006 we received awards in the Law Society and CRE Race Equality awards for lawyers.